Regulatory framework

concerning restrictive measures in response to the recognition of the non-government controlled areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine and the ordering of Russian armed forces into those areas

Application of the Guidelines of the European Securities and Market Authority on Settlement Fails Reporting under Article 7 of CSDR (ESMA70-156-4717).

EBA/Op/2022/01

The resolution encourages all Member States to submit to the Committee for inclusion on the ISIL (Da’esh) & Al-Qaida Sanctions List names of individuals, groups, undertakings and entities participating by any means, in the financing or support of acts or activities of ISIL, Al-Qaida, associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities; strongly urges Member States to implement the comprehensive international standards embodies in the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) Forty Recommendations on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism; calls upon Member States to submit an updated report to the Committee no later than 180 days from the date of adoption of the form developed pursuant to paragraph 47 on the implementation of freezing of assets and any exemption thereto, of the measures referred to in paragraph 1 of this resolution; decides that in order to ensure careful consideration of requests for basic and extraordinary exemptions from the assets freeze submitted under paragraphs 84(a) and 84(b), the Committee, through the Secretariat, will immediately acknowledge receipt of the request; Underscores the importance of the Office of the Ombudsperson and extends its mandate for 30 months, strongly urges Member States to provide all the relevant information to the Ombudsperson; Extends the mandate of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team for 30 months.

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Adoption of the revised guidelines, by EBA, on money laundering and terrorist financing risk factors

ESMA50-164-4285

on the conditions for the application of the alternative treatment of institutions’ exposures related to ‘tri-party repurchase agreements’ for large exposures purposes (EBA/GL/2021/01)

amending Delegated Regulation (EU) No 667/2014 with regard to the content of the file to be submitted by the investigation officer to the European Securities and Markets Authority, the right to be heard with regard to interim decisions and the lodging of fines and periodic penalty payments (Text with EEA relevance)

ESMA guidelines on the reporting under Articles 4 and 12 SFTR

Governance and security requirements for supervised entities to perform tasks or activities through telework

Ministerial Regulation of 9 October 2020 amending Annex I C of Grandducal Regulation of 29 October 2010 enforcing the Law of 27 October 2010 implementing United Nations Security Council resolutions as well as acts adopted by the European Union concerning prohibitions and restrictive measures in financial matters in respect of certain persons, entities and groups in the context of the combat against terrorist financing.

Version of 14.07.2022